Smith testified that she suffered a miscarriage in January two weeks before her half-sister, Brianna Marshall, gave birth to Kayden Powell.

Smith said Marshall planned to move herself, her baby and the baby's father to Colorado to live with Smith. Smith testified that when she awoke to leave Beloit the day Kayden was reported missing, Kayden's father told her to take the baby with her. Smith said when Marshall called her at about 4:30 a.m., Smith told Marshall Kayden was with Smith. When police called Smith asking her to pull over, Smith said she wasn't thinking straight at that time.

The trial was halted briefly Wednesday afternoon after Smith began sobbing uncontrollably on the witness stand.